Magazine Front Cover - Title Experimentation

For my magazine front cover, I have been experimenting with colour schemes to create a horror genre colour scheme that converts away from the stereotypical horror reds and blacks. This is green so it contrasts heavily against the green and personally I believe this to be effective, however I now need to work on taking my image and producing the sell lines for the magazine itself to broadcast and explore the content. 

Finished Capture Poster

I stuck to the original elements that I had in my first draft, but after editing the image that I had taken and placing my titles as such on the image, I found that as a whole it works effectively with each other, with a blue overall colour scheme presented. It represents my trailer well as it links back to the psychological idea that no one truly knows who the threat is which is why it consists of a variety of hands throughout. On this poster, although it is rather dark I have strayed away from the idea of typical horror colour schemes consisting of black and red. I have opted for blues to challenge the conventions of the horror genre. 

Film Poster Photography Trial

For my poster, I have experimented with the main image and using the jump scare at the ending as the main feature that is going to draw my target audience in to watching the trailer itself. Instead of taking a screenshot from my trailer I wanted to have the image taken in a higher resolution and quality, so this poster is overall going to be more controlled as I have looked at a variety of approaches when taking my image and not just sticking to the same pose. Lighting has also been another factor that I have had to consider in my imagery as I wanted to explore the effect that light has on the overall image itself, which is explored and shown in the photos above. Personally I am going to attempt to edit the 5th image further as the lighting and the placement works nicely with each other and I believe that this is therefore going to be easier to manipulate and edit to my intentions. 

Poster First Draft

For the first drafting of my poster, I have experimented with a variety of colours that I can distribute across my production pieces to decide which one has a greater effect on my target audience that I am aiming my trailer at. In this lesson today, I have produced the credit blocking for my poster and worked on the fonts that I want to use across my production pieces to create an overall house style for my horror film production work. This colour scheme that I have chosen is very blue, and it means that I am straying away from the codes and conventions of the genre and the posters always being associated with red as I want to have a generic aspect to my poster, besides the imagery used. I have decided on the layout, I want to keep to the layout I have displayed above, but I am going to have my imagery either of a fire blending into a photograph of the ornament that is featured in the trailer. Or alternatively feature a heavily edited image of a hand again reaching for the ornament as it is a common feature that I again want to have featured throughout. 

Flat Plans & Feedback - Magazine Front Cover and Poster

Film Trailer Finished Product

Film Trailer Rough Cut Feedback

The feedback that I gained from the class after having them watch my trailer, was that primarily I now need to work on adding sound and working it into my trailer to make it a more realistic horror trailer, as I have already a variety of visuals, however alongside this I am now aiming to work on the transitions of the shots as It is very jumpy to other shots I have filmed and added in because it doesn't work as well alongside the typical codes and conventions of a trailer. As I had only just begun adding in the text to trailer, I need to work on choosing a more suitable font to represent the horror genre, but for my rough cut I was only adding in these titles to experiment where I wanted them to be, as I have adapted my storyboard throughly to link more to the narrative of hansel and Gretel just a more modern day version horror.